Der Feldscherer
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Title
Der Feldscherer
Subject
Battlefield scene: in the foreground the surgeon is treating an arrow wound in a man's chest, directly behind them is the surgeon's tent open for view; the battle is in progress in the background.
Features tools hung up in the tent, mastectomy and others - the man is being cut on the breast, evoking christ's breast. Two groupings of putti enact various surgeries - one cuts his pair's hair; in the other we see a vaccination take place (suggesting that Christoph Maurer is not the artist)
Features tools hung up in the tent, mastectomy and others - the man is being cut on the breast, evoking christ's breast. Two groupings of putti enact various surgeries - one cuts his pair's hair; in the other we see a vaccination take place (suggesting that Christoph Maurer is not the artist)
Description
1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
halftone
Technique:
halftone
Creator
Maurer, Christoph, 1558-1614, artist (original print?)
Source
NLM
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101409991
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101409991
Publisher
Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1912
Citation
Maurer, Christoph, 1558-1614, artist (original print?), “Der Feldscherer,” European Mastectomy, accessed May 24, 2026, https://www.european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/items/show/375.